Saling The World: Pokemon Platinum, Wii Fit Lead Domestic Charts

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.

This week's charts, with data taken from April 9th, 2009, find Pokemon Platinum and Wii Fit heading multiplatform sales numbers in the United States, while Oboro Muramasa and Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes take the lead in Japan.

Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows:

Wii Fit retakes the top spot in this week's North American sales charts, outselling all competing titles on all platforms. Mario Kart Wii finishes at second place, while Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga returns to take fifth.

The Vanillaware-developed brawler Oboro Muramasa finishes first in its debut week in Japan, meanwhile, as Wii Fit and Wii Play maintain a healthy lead in the UK.

A temporary "Deal of the Day" sale price places Mirror's Edge at first place in this week's Xbox 360 software sales at Amazon. Guitar Hero: Metallica also sees a sales boost this week, pushing past Resident Evil 5 to take second place.

Elsewhere, 5pb's adventure title 11eyes CrossOver continues to lead in Japan, as FIFA 09 outperforms all competition in Europe.

SNK's budget-priced 2D fighter compilation Samurai Shodown Anthology tops PlayStation 2 software sales for the third week in a row in the United States, achieving sales numbers that outpace even big-name titles like MLB 09: The Show and Guitar Hero: Metallica.

Shadow of the Colossus makes an unexpected chart comeback at fourth place this week, as God of War finishes out the North American top five at fifth.

As was the case last week, Amazon-sponsored discounts again result in an unexpected winner in North America's PC sales chart. A price-dropped Mirror's Edge finishes first among U.S. PC software titles, as World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King moves up to take second.

THQ's Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor debuts at the top of the charts in the UK, meanwhile, as Capcom's MMORPG Monster Hunter Frontier Online Season 5.0 finishes first in Japan.

Despite an aggressive advertising campaign, Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven didn't quite crack the U.S. top five in its first week of release. The title ranks sixth in this week's Nintendo DS software sales at Amazon. Pokemon Platinum pushes past Professor Layton to lead regional sales numbers for the week, as Mario Kart DS and New Super Mario Bros. trail close behind.

This week's North American PSP sales results at Amazon find budget-priced rereleases of God of War: Chains of Olympus and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII leading over more recent and expensive titles like MLB 09: The Show and Resistance: Retribution. The sub-$20 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories also ranks high in this week's charts.

Elsewhere in the world, Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes sees a first-place chart victory in its debut week in Japan, while FIFA 09 takes top honors in Europe.